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Atlas Genius Trojans

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Atlas Genius Trojans

Lyrics to Trojans:
Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

Your trojan's in my head

It's ok if it's gone
The thoughts that you had that it was the one
And oh what is left?
For all those times is that what you get?
Oh regardless
The walls get painted anyway
Oh you're guarding
The gates, but it all got away

Your trojan's in my head

Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australiaâ€™s Atlas Genius do things a little differentlyâ€¦.They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. â€œWe really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,â€ recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Geniusâ€™s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called â€œTrojans,â€ which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, â€œTrojansâ€ was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

â€œWe had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,â€ says Keith. â€œWeâ€™d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didnâ€™t really have anything to show for it.â€ But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered â€œTrojansâ€ on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising â€œTrojansâ€ as a song sure to â€œinvade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.â€ Checking the bandâ€™s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

â€œWe were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,â€ recalls Keith. â€œSo we said, â€˜Thereâ€™s something going on here. Letâ€™s get back to the music.â€™â€ The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, â€œTrojansâ€ reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radioâ€™s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, â€œTrojansâ€ was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. â€œTrojansâ€ began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

â€œKnowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,â€ says Keith. â€œIt was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.â€ Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

â€œWeâ€™d never been to America before,â€ says Keith. â€œWe flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like â€˜How do we fit into all this?â€™â€ In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. â€œWe felt a connection with them,â€ notes Keith. â€œEveryone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.â€

The bandâ€™s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Geniusâ€™s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering â€œSymptoms,â€ for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, â€œBack Seatâ€ blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on â€œTrojans,â€ Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (â€œTake it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what weâ€™ve beenâ€) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

â€œItâ€™s still surreal,â€ says Keith of all thatâ€™s happened over the past 18 months. â€œI think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,â€ he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) â€œBut then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put â€˜Trojansâ€™ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We donâ€™t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.â€

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